The trove of cool artifacts comes from the world's largest private collection of spycraft
Elizabeth Stern played a vital role in cervical cancer testing and treatment
In 1983, Soviet lieutenant colonel Stanislav Petrov kept his cool and reported a U.S. missile strike as a false alarm, preventing a massive counterstrike
The first female opera composer, Caccini worked for the super-rich-and-powerful Medici family
Gold miners were heard in a bar talking about killing 10 indigenous people in the remote Javari Valley
The Petersen House, across the street from Ford's Theatre, will undergo preservation work to keep it as a museum of the president's final moments
An ancient text called the Bakhshali manuscript has bumped zero’s origin story back by 500 years
The newly discovered artifacts are the latest discovery at Vindolanda, once a remote outpost of the Roman empire
Before McKinley's death, the president didn't have one united protective squad
Being single is hard enough without these pejoratives.
Vandals covered the statue’s hands in red paint and wrote “Hate will not be tolerated” on its base
The driver was arrested but released after hitting Bliss
Eating chocolate is a relatively new innovation
According to one of its creators, the infamously gory game got caught up in a transitional moment in video gaming
What started out as an advertising ploy turned into a low-key cultural phenomenon
The idea of a ninth planet in the Solar System would resolve a mathematical conundrum about Mercury–only problem is, it wasn't there
The book has been confounding scholars, cryptologists and sleuths for centuries
The tomb of Amenemhat and his wife Amenhotep includes a statue of the couple, mummies, statues and funerary masks
Most of them had never even heard Jenny Lind sing
DNA analysis shows that the elaborate grave of what appears to be a Viking officer was a real-life shieldmaiden
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